On Monday, April 29, 2013 09:48:05 AM Jim Fulton wrote: > I'd like there to a stable 4.0 release **soon** > that doesn't use zodbpickle for Python 2.
I would like to agree. But on the other hand, the ZODB release cycles are very long and the prospect of waiting another 6-12 months before any Python 3 support lands, is really scary because it prohibits me to even write a new project in Python 3. (CH has just invested about 6 man-months into the porting effort and without ZODB we are basically stuck. But we do not need a transition plan, since we can recreate our ZODBs from configuration files.) Could we compromise and support Python 3 in ZODB 4.0 without necessarily solve all the migration strategy issues? In fact, by using zodbpickle, zodbpickle can have a separate, faster release cycle experimenting with some transition strategies. Maybe one way to install ZODB 4.0 would be to not use zodbpickle and use cPickle instead. We already have all that stuff separated into a _compat module, so that should not be too hard. Regards, Stephan -- Entrepreneur and Software Geek Google me. "Zope Stephan Richter" _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see http://zodb.org/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev
